Automated checking for broken links within content pieces

[GoAbroadKP]

Hi, I am wondering if anyone can send me in the right direction on a system suggestion.

We have currently grown out amount of content pieces on our website and our manual checking if the links in the content pieces are still 200 status is becoming extremely time consuming. Does anyone have a recommendation of a system that will crawl your pages and check both the internal and external links within the content for a status code (404,200,etc)? Preferably something server side so it can just run on a schedule but really anything would be fine.

I have tried things like Screaming frog, etc and it just doesn't seem to be the right tool.

[Matt-Williamson]

Have you tried http://www.link-assistant.com/website-auditor/ as it checks for broken links and can be scheduled to run automatically. You can sit it on your own server or something like AWS. We ran it on a free instance of AWS for quite a while before upgrading and never had issues. We upgraded as we run quite a bit of software on there - still isn't huge costs involved.

Hope this helps!

Matt

[GlobeRunner]

Jonathan, I'm not sure why you're saying that Screaming Frog isn't the right tool--we use it with great success to check the internal links on the site. There are other tools that you can use, such as Integrity (on a Mac), or Xenu, which is an older link checker but still works.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Try ScreamingFrog again Jonathan, it works great for these kind of things and should also be able to solve your use case.